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T-Systems teams with PROGNOSIS for VoIP Solution

24 November, 2005 12:53

<p>Integrated Research (ASX:IRI), developers of PROGNOSIS performance monitoring solutions, today announced a new partnership with T-Systems (a division of Deutsche Telekom) for a major VoIP deployment in Germany. The company also announced the opening of a new office in the centre of Frankfurt a.M. to support its growing customer base and to target new IP telephony opportunities in the region.</p><p>“PROGNOSIS is well established in Germany, with clients such as DB Systems (Deutsche Bahn) and Deutsche Bank. We had committed to open the new European office in Frankfurt and this new partnership with T-Systems has reinforced our decision,” said Keith Andrews, CEO of Integrated Research.</p><p>“Over the past 17 years we’ve built a solid Central European business for our HP NonStop server performance management products, through the support of local distributors,” added Andrews. “Now we’re investing in a more direct presence to address the rapidly emerging German market for VoIP and IP telephony performance management solutions.”</p><p>The Gartner Group predicts compound annual growth of business VoIP in Western Europe at 37 per cent annually, which represents 11.7 million new IP telephones deployed by 2009. PROGNOSIS, along with new partner T-Systems looks set to capitalise on this growth.</p><p>Wolfgang Sattel, Service Delivery Manager from T-Systems said, “Corporations are now starting to rollout large IP telephony deployments. As the leader in this field, T-Systems is working with these companies to help implement and manage their systems. We chose PROGNOSIS IP Telephony Manager from Integrated Research as our monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting solution, as it will allow us to intimately manage all aspects of our clients’ IP telephony deployment.”</p><p>Sattel added, “We’re encouraged that Integrated Research is making a greater investment into supporting opportunities in the German market and we look forward to working with the local PROGNOSIS team on our first major client deployment.”</p><p>- End -</p><p>About PROGNOSIS and Integrated Research www.ir.comIntegrated Research - the people behind PROGNOSIS - is a publicly listed company with a 17-year heritage of providing precise performance monitoring solutions for business-critical computing and IP telephony networks.</p><p>The company services customers in more than 50 countries through direct sales offices in the USA, Europe and Australia, and via a global channel-driven distribution network. Clients include the world’s largest bank, telecommunications company, stock exchange, computer hardware manufacturer and internet service provider.</p><p>PROGNOSIS for IP Telephony is a comprehensive, integrated suite of lifecycle management solutions spanning Voice over IP (VoIP) network-readiness assessment, pre-deployment assurance testing, and ongoing performance management for Cisco IP Communications environments.</p><p>PROGNOSIS has been involved in IP telephony from the start, and now manages more than 150 of the world’s largest IP telephony implementations for customers such as CarrAmerica, Internetwork Experts, Abercrombie and Fitch, Infostream, Warner Pacific, NASDAQ, Global Data Systems and NCR.</p><p>About T-Systems www.t-systems.comT-Systems is one of Europe’s leading providers of information and communications technology (ICT). Within the Deutsche Telekom group, the T-Systems brand symbolizes the strategic business area “Business customers”: this comprises some 60 multinational groups and large public authorities, as well as 160,000 large and medium-sized companies.</p><p>T-Systems operates globally and with the powerful Telekom Global Net links up all important business locations in Europe, North America and Asia. Based on these company-owned network infrastructures T-Systems provides internationally operating companies and institutions global, constant ICT services – to the same high standard no matter where the location.</p><p>Media Contact:Eleanor GormanKinetics Pty Ltd02 9976 6611Eleanor@kinetics.com.au</p>

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